Review: 'She Said' is more important than 'All the President's Men.' There, I said it
An avalanche almost always begins with a trickle of dirt or a few bouncing pebbles, and then the world caves in.
So it was for Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters who, along with Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker, broke the Harvey Weinsten sexual abuse story, leading to, among other things, #MeToo, the firings of many high-profile men, the horrifying drama of the Bret Kavanaugh hearings and, at the very least, a greater awareness of the widespread, systemically supported and always devastating nature of sexual harassment.
Now Kantor and Twohey have written "She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Unite a Movement" (Penguin Press) to tell us, in fascinating detail and with a remarkably ego-free eye on the story's enormous impact, how they did it.
It is a binge-read of a book, propelled, for the most part, by a clear, adrenaline-spiking ticktock of how their stories came together, and studded with all manner of new astonishing details (R.I.P. the careers of attorneys Lisa Bloom and David Boies.)
As with "All the President's Men" in whose company it now stands, the action in "She
